Uchujin65 wrote:
Doctor 1313 wrote:
It would have been nice if Peter Jackson had remade KING KONG VS. GODZILLA instead of just KONG. With the care and respect he put in that remake, it would have been really cool to see what he would have done with KK VS. G.

DOCTOR 13


King Kong vs. Godzilla is one of my least favorite of the classic Godzilla films and probably Ishiro Honda's worst film in my book (though All Monsters Attack may trump it). The Kong suit is way too silly to be anything but a big visual eye-sore. It was a bad idea to pair them and one totally motivated by commerce, given the classic O'Brien Kong would in reality be about the size of a cat versus a human compared to Godzilla and Toho should have been left out of the picture. The Japanese version is better and actually has interesting human characters which the US version mutilates, it's a way better salaryman comedy than a monster film, they should have shot O'Brien's King Kong vs. Prometheus script back in the 50s instead of made this. King Kong Escapes is much like it, though that film would have been far better had they built a better Kong suit.



I think its one of my faves because it gets out of the lab and the Diet Building (really, I could not have stomached one more of Koreya Senda's mumbling professor routines sapping the life out of everything), and into the world of show-biz. Love the score too.

But, yeah, the Kong suit is pretty weak. But i think Godzilla looks even worse in this one. The fat legs and beak like mouth make him look very piecemeal.